released 9/22/2023

In The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship (1997), historian George M. Marsden outlined what Christian scholarship at its best should and does look like. In The Dying of the Light: The Disengagement of Colleges and Universities from their Christian Churches (1998), James Tunstead Burtchaell explained why Christian colleges and universities abandoned the goal of Christian scholarship. Interviews with both authors about the possibilities for scholarship that is truly thinking are in this Friday Feature.

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